ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,239, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Alpha Networks Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for uplink communication, radio access network and RAN system" was invented by Tzu-Chung Ke (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yan-Ciao Jao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for uplink communication to be executed by a RAN includes: for each of UEs, establishing connection with one of RUs; host device conducting data transmission with each UE in multiple phase delays through controlling the beamforming antenna of the UE via the RU that is connected to the UE, and calculating an error rate with respect to each of the phase delays; the host...